Year: 2019

Don Fletcher

No ‘back burner’
APD ‘aggressively working’ fatal party shooting By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Although Atmore police have yet to announce the arrest of any suspect or suspects in the May 18 party shooting that left an Atmore teen dead and eight other people injured, Police Chief Chuck Brooks said the fatal shooting has not been relegated to the “cold case” file. “We are continuing to work the case as aggressively as…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Raise for public school employees
By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher The Escambia County Board of Education met in special session Thursday, June 27, with one of the agenda items being the approval of the 2019-2020 salary schedule. While the salary schedule is usually a routine item, this year it included a 4 percent increase in public school employees’ pay. In fact, this year’s state education budget is the largest in history with salary increases and…
by Sherry Digmon access_time6 years ago
Trammell Street parking lot closing
Improvements expected to take more than 2 months By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher Parking, which is sometimes in short supply in the Trammell Street parking lot, is about to become non-existent, at least for about 10 weeks. The Trammell Street parking lot will be closed from Monday, July 8, until around September 20. If you visit or work at Atmore News, the Tot Shop, Escambia Drug Store, We Care Thrift…
by Sherry Digmon access_time6 years ago
Inducted into the Atmore Area Hall of Fame, April 2019
Dr. Wil Baker Atmore native Wilmer E. Baker, PhD, is a 1953 graduate of Escambia County High School. He has served as Associate Dean of Clinical Resources for Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOM) in Dothan. Dr. Baker received his Ed.D. in Research and Psychology from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 1973. He also holds an Ed.S. Specialist in Education from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (1971), an…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Two Ships Passing in the Night
by DON FLETCHER   When Alex Jones and Turner Brooks parted company a year ago after working out together for the last time at Atmore Area YMCA, neither had any idea when their paths might cross again. The local servicemen certainly didn’t expect to bump into each other at a remote, multi-national military outpost more than 8,000 miles from home. But, as Alex (U.S. Navy CDR Alexander L. Jones) prepared…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago